Definition of back

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Back (v. i.) To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend..

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Humpback :: Humpback (n.) A crooked back; a humped back.
Pull :: Pull (v. t.) To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled..
Eddy :: Eddy (n.) A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current..
Remeant :: Remeant (a.) Coming back; returning.
Redemise :: Redemise (v. t.) To demise back; to convey or transfer back, as an estate..
Surbased :: Surbase (n.) A board or group of moldings running round a room on a level with the tops of the chair backs.
Hemibranchi :: Hemibranchi (n. pl.) An order of fishes having an incomplete or reduced branchial apparatus. It includes the sticklebacks, the flutemouths, and Fistularia..
Table :: Table (n.) The games of backgammon and of draughts.
Lord :: Lord (n.) A hump-backed person; -- so called sportively.
Reclination :: Reclination (n.) The act or process of removing a cataract, by applying the needle to its anterior surface, and depressing it into the vitreous humor in such a way that the front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and its back surface the lower one..
Holophotal :: Holophotal (a.) Causing no loss of light; -- applied to reflectors which throw back the rays of light without perceptible loss.
Back :: Back (adv.) In concealment or reserve; in one's own possession; as, to keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to another..
Retract :: Retract (v. i.) To take back what has been said; to withdraw a concession or a declaration.
Rocking :: Rocking (a.) Having a swaying, rolling, or back-and-forth movement; used for rocking..
Pause :: Pause (n.) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
Ticktack :: Ticktack (n.) A kind of backgammon played both with men and pegs; tricktrack.
Indorsement :: Indorsement (n.) The act of writing on the back of a note, bill, or other written instrument..
Maniglion :: Maniglion (n.) Either one of two handles on the back of a piece of ordnance.
Back :: Back (v. i.) To place or seat upon the back.
Underlay :: Underlay (n.) A thickness of paper, pasteboard, or the like, placed under a cut, or stereotype plate, or under type, in the from, to bring it, or any part of it, to the proper height; also, something placed back of a part of the tympan, so as to secure the right impression..
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